Flowers for Every Garden

What to order, when to plant it and how to keep it alive: a 1920s gardener's working notes on bulbs, annuals, perennials and roses, down to the fourteen perennials she would not garden without.

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials

15 pages in this part of Flowers for Every Garden.

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials

Arabis (rockcress) is usually thought of distinctively as a rock-garden plant, but gardeners who have tried it in the perennial border have…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Dicentra

Bleedingheart (Dicentra or Dielytra), beloved and cherished in old-time gardens, is coming into its own again and increasing numbers of…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Canterbury

Canterbury Bells (Campanula Medium) Although Canterbury bells are classed among the biennials, that group of plants for whose bloom one…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Aquilegia

Aquilegia canadensis, bearing small flowers of yellow and scarlet hue, is a native of this country and a pleasing candidate for the wild…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Delphiniums

Delphiniums may be raised very easily from seed. One of the best ways in which to obtain unusually choice plants for one's garden is to…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Myosotis

Forget-me-nots (Myosotis) No spring garden is quite complete without the blue of forget-me-nots. They are especially delightful used as a…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Iris

Notes on Iris Culture. One will find that irises have very definite, though very simple requirements.

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Japanese

Japanese Iris (Iris kaempferi). The stately Japanese irises fortunately come into bloom when the beauty of many of the other perennials has…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Linum

Flax (Linum perenne) The blue of soft spring skies is reflected in this flower and there is nothing that can quite take its place. It has…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Mertensia

Mertensia Mertensia virginica is known both as the American blue-bell and as the Virginia cowslip. Growing wild in numerous sections of the…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Peonies

Peonies should be used sparingly in the small garden. The plants themselves require so much room and the blooms are so large that they are…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Phlox

Hardy Phlox There are many types and varieties of hardy phlox, the three most useful kinds for the perennial garden being the wild…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Hybrid

For garden beds and borders the four types most commonly used are the Hybrid Perpetuals, the Tea roses, Hybrid Teas, and Polyanthas. For…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Irish

Irish Singles. I feel that I cannot leave the subject of Hybrid Tea roses without mentioning the lovely group known as the Irish Singles…

Fourteen Favorites Among the Perennials: Climbing

Group II: Climbing Roses With such a wealth of climbing roses as there is at hand one feels that there is little excuse to-day for bare…

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